Occupation: Logician Birth: April 28, 1906 Death: January 14, 1978
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able….
The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all..
The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution ….
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove ….
The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision..
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err..
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself..
All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false..
Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!.
Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science..
I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth..
The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove….
I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded..
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false..
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife.
The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact..
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine..
I don't believe in natural science..
The axiomatic method is very powerful.